Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group

Duration:

105 mins

Offered on:

Mon, Thu & Sat at 7.30am

Meeting Point:

Vatican Museums Entrance

No wait in lines!

All our prices include tickets and reservations

Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group | Max 6 People

See Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Sistine Chapel, in the morning light

Beat the crowds with direct access into the Raphael Rooms & Sistine Chapel. No lines. No wait.

Enjoy an intimate experience in a small group of no more than 6 people

Visit the two highlights of the Museums full hour before it opens to the general public

2022 NEWS:
Thanks to a very special and profound partnership signed by LivItaly Tours LLC (LivTours) and the Vatican Museums for 2022, we are proud to offer clients a very unique and exclusive 8AM first entry into the Museums’ doors, guaranteed to be reserved only to a handful of other collaborating tour operators. This special entry and tour are designed to guarantee you access and viewing of the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel 30 minutes before other operators and one hour before the general public. We are proud to be able to serve such impressive and extraordinary experience and share it with our clients.

LivItaly’s Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour is designed for travelers who want to make the most of their time in Rome and go directly to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Julius II’s Raphael Rooms without spending hours of touring the Vatican Museums.

Your LivItaly tour guide will take you and your small group of no more than 6 travelers straight to the sacred Apostolic Palace one hour before it is open to the public and 30 minutes before generic tour operators, so there is no waiting in line and no elbowing your way through the pesky surge of crowds on your way to Michelangelo’s masterpiece! An early morning tour is the perfect way to get a head start on your day, and be able to see the Sistine Chapel before the public even enters the museums.

ABOUT LIVITALY’S EARLY SISTINE CHAPEL TOUR

Your LivItaly guide will meet you and your small group by the entrance of the Vatican Museums. Your expert guide will begin to give you a taste of the genius that was Michelangelo Buonarroti, giving you a bit of background as to how a sculptor from Florence found himself being commissioned to paint a fresco for three and a half years under the rule of Pope Julius II, a Pope whom he held in low regard. You will learn how and why Michelangelo simply was not interested in painting the Sistine Chapel and similar anecdotes that will give you a greater appreciation for this master work.

Your guide will take you directly into the museums, skipping the lines and you will be guided past the corridors and collections, straight into the Raphael Rooms & Sistine Chapel which are at the very end of the museum. This Express Sistine Chapel Tour makes no stops in the museums and is designed to take you straight to the Sistine Chapel, a masterpiece which attracts over 25,000 visitors a day!

Now imagine yourself in this small chapel with only a few other private access tour groups around you, giving you the space and time needed to fully enjoy this intellectual and emotional depiction that surround, with the morning light seeping through.

Here in this chapel you will learn about storytelling through art with representations from the bible covering every crevice. Michelangelo chose some of the most prominent stories to tell from the Book of Genesis such as the famous Creation of Adam, where God breathes life into Adam and The Fall, where the forbidden fruit was eaten and original sin was created. Look straight ahead and you will find the stunning portrayal of The Last Judgement, where Christ is forefront surrounded by sinners and believers. Your guide will give you an idea of who at the time would be admitted to into the gates of heaven and who would be damned to hell.

The Sistine Chapel was no ordinary fresco. This was a religious and political statement of contemporary times giving us an incredibly intricate view of Renaissance and views and perspectives.

THE NEWLY RESTORED RAPHAEL ROOMS

On your way to the Chapel you will be walking through the majestic newly remodeled Raphael Rooms painted by the young artist to decorate the apartments of Pope Julius II, same who commissioned the Chapel to Michangelo. The work is extraordinary and being able to see it without the daily incredible and suffocating crowds is a unique experience. See the School of Athens, considered the masterpiece of the Vatican collection, in total peace and comfort before you head into the Sistine Chapel.

WHY BOOK LIVITALY’S EARLY SISTINE CHAPEL TOUR

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms are the two must-sees in the Vatican Museums, but long lines and waits can easily be a deterrent if time is tight so LivItaly has designed a tour specially for those who want to make the most of their time in Rome. You will get to see the most iconic Rome sites thanks to our Express Sistine Chapel Tour with exclusive access to the Museums before they open to the general public. There is no better way to see these two highlights if you want to make the most of your time.

You have come this far to see one of the world’s greatest works of art, so optimize your time in Rome by letting LivItaly guide you using all our expertise, knowledge and timing so you can use that extra time saved touring this great capital city! You can expect a tour of the Sistine Chapel, a brief tour of St Peter’s Basilica (home to Michelangelo’s Dome)!

NOTE: Vatican management maintains the right to delay the opening of the Sistine Chapel for religious reasons, in this case the guide will modify the itinerary and extend your visit of the museums to ensure you make the most of your time before access to the Sistine Chapel is permitted.

NOTE: Guests with wheelchair accessibility needs will find difficulty with this small group tour. In order to ensure a barrier-free tour with alternative routes, please book the private version of the Express Sistine Chapel Tour.

*Please be aware that the Sistine Chapel is a Holy Place and talking during your visit inside is strictly forbidden. LivItaly’s Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour begins at 7.30AM, however the first 30 minutes of the tour are held outside of the Vatican Museums in order to give you a comprehensive explanation before entering the chapel.

We are firm in our mission to giving every one of our guests an entirely unique and comfortable experience, maintaining small group sizes to make it easier to navigate through this very busy (and sometimes overcrowded) period.

ABOUT OUR 6 PEOPLE SMALL GROUP POLICY
When you book a LivItaly Small Group Tour, you are guaranteed one tour guide per group of 6 people. Please bear in mind though that in order to accommodate traveling families and friends, we do on rare occasion make the exception of adding an additional one to two guests in order not to split groups who are traveling together. On that same note, you may find yourself on tour with less than six people. As we accept bookings in multiples of six, math doesn’t always work in our favor to help accommodate individual travelers and their families when on the same tour, so we hope you understand and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

LivItaly's guide will take you on an express tour to see Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel
You will get direct access to the Apostolic Palace 1 hour before it opens to the public
Learn about Michaelangelo's life & work outside the Chapel as you cannot speak inside the chapel.
One of the most famous of all Michelangelo's depictions - The Creation of Adam.
See the different stories throughout the paintings as explained by out guide beforehand
Visit Peter's Basilica, the worlds largest church with LivItaly's map with the highlights.
Walk into the church and see Bernini’s famous 96 feet tall sculpture - St. Peter's Baldacchino!
Be one of the first to admire the Chair of Saint Peter, a masterpiece by Bernini.
Visit the Pietà sculpture by Michelangelo depicting the body of Jesus on Mary's lap.

This Tour includes:

Sistine Chapel

St Peter's Basilica

Price Explanation

Each participant

Adults

18
and over

... 119€ 211.82$ 110.67£ 139.23$

Students

18-26
with valid Student ID

... 114€ 202.92$ 106.02£ 133.38$

Teenagers

13-17

... 109€ 194.02$ 101.37£ 127.53$

Children

3-12

... 104€ 185.12$ 96.72£ 121.68$

Username
Password
For faster checkout, login or register using your social account. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google

Remember Me Lost your password? Register

Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group

Book Now

Close

Duration:

105 mins

Offered on:

Mon, Thu & Sat at 7.30am

Meeting Point:

Vatican Museums Entrance

No wait in lines!

All our prices include tickets and reservations

Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group | Max 6 People

This Tour includes:

Price Explanation

Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group

Book Now

Close

Home > Tours > Vatican City > Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group

Duration:

105 mins

Offered on:

Mon, Thu & Sat at 7.30am

Meeting Point:

Vatican Museums Entrance

No wait in lines!

All our prices include tickets and reservations

Express Early Sistine Chapel Tour | Small Group | Max 6 People

This Tour includes:

Price Explanation

Create your wishlist!

LOGIN

Register For This Site